Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The health council has not yet taken an official position on the board 's proposals , but Mr Tait said that since Arbroath was a popular holiday town , it required better services than that of a cottage hospital . |
| 32 | It required close liaison as Sekers tendered for the business , adding their own design flair to the interpretation of the brief , and their technical skills to the specification . |
| 33 | Necessary as legislation was in terms of public safety , for years it was unattractive to Ministers since it required considerable expenditure whilst at the same time being unlikely to attract any votes . |
| 34 | It included such things as reliability . |
| 35 | It included such items as an ivory Saint Sebastian tied to a tree in the form of a coral branch , something which Gonzalez-Palacios will surely soon locate . |
| 36 | November : On Nov. 14 all 46 people on board an Alitalia DC9 died when it hit high ground while approaching Zurich airport in Switzerland . |
| 37 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 38 | The Transport and General Workers Union said it saw seasonal workers as potentially ripe for recruitment precisely because a considerable number returned to the same job year after year ( see Financial Times , 7/1/87 ) . |
| 39 | It looked more silver than gold on this dull , overcast day . |
| 40 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
| 41 | At last night 's summit Denmark was also heavily criticised after it demanded further opt-outs before it will sign the agreement . |
| 42 | It took four hours before he could move , during which time the lifeless body of Ewan Famber that was , leaked fluids off the white table on to the ceraplas floor . |
| 43 | It took eighteen years before the game moved officially to the appropriately proletarian environment of Australia . |
| 44 | But as it is as you say you know it took five minutes before it all happened in I find this very do n't you ? |
| 45 | It took long moments before Caroline calmed down enough to remember that she had not sprung the little trap she 'd set . |
| 46 | It took two years before I girded up my floppy disks and bought an Amstrad . |
| 47 | It took more courage than she knew she possessed to follow him . |
| 48 | It took more optimism than most people could summon to believe that man could renounce the time-honoured outlet of war utterly and at a stroke . |
| 49 | It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco . |
| 50 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
| 51 | And erm they 'd moved the kit , got the electricians to do it and it took , it took three fuses when they did it , I mean the extensions fused on that particular system , the data pairs fused |
| 52 | The police poured out to stop them , though it took three nights before the disturbances began to die down . |
| 53 | When replacing the case for example , it took several attempts before it was positioned correctly , and the power button worked properly again . |
| 54 | It took several minutes before they were ready to leave , and even then Mabel hovered in the doorway , saying plaintively , ‘ You wo n't be long , will you ? |
| 55 | It took several weeks before the new trader was able to work out roughly the quantities he needed each morning to satisfy his customers ' needs , and still longer to realise that those needs would vary from day to day |
| 56 | Edward , given a private room , discovered the problem first hand : it took twenty minutes before he raised the operator , and another ten before he was talking to Flight Lieutenant Benson . |
| 57 | ‘ No , it took some hours before we dragged the body from beneath a mound of soggy corpses . |
| 58 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |
| 59 | It took some time before Willie allowed himself to relax in the water . |
| 60 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |